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Cloud computing pricing and economics

  • Cloud Computing for Dummies

    Learn how to assess the benefits and risks associated with cloud services before introducing it to your organization in this sample of Chapter 22: Starting Your Journey to the Cloud, from "Cloud Computing for Dummies." 

  • The economics of application development in the cloud

    In part two of our interview with Greg Arnette, the CTO and founder of Sonian, he discusses the economics of developing applications in cloud environments. 

  • Understanding cloud computing pricing

    Someday, cloud computing providers may simplify pricing models. But until that day, when determining total pricing for a cloud computing service, consider the services offered by the provider and how each pricing structure is worded. 

  • The top 10 cloud computing news stories of 2009

    From Google's $7.2 million deal with the city of Los Angeles to Spamhaus declaring all U.S. EC2 IP addresses as spam, these are the ten most-read cloud computing stories. 

  • Dreamforce 2009 conference coverage

    Check out the news and video coverage of Dreamforce 2009, the cloud computing conference in San Francisco. 

  • Comparing Microsoft Azure's pricing policies

    Microsoft's reluctance to release Azure pricing details made users wary, and the numbers it finally released come up short against Google App Engine in several ways. 

  • Tech Watch: Cloud computing services

    With cloud computing services projected to rake in a third of IT spending by 2013, there are a few key functions that value-added resellers should target. Find out what those functions are and how to keep up with this evolutionary change. 

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  • utility storage

    Utility storage is a service model in which a provider makes storage capacity available to an individual, an organization or a business unit on a pay-per-use basis. The utility model is sometimes called metered services or storage on demand. 

  • hybrid IT

    Hybrid IT is an approach to enterprise computing in which an organization provides and manages some information technology (IT) resources in-house but uses cloud-based services for others. 

  • hybrid cloud

    A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment in which an organization provides and manages some resources in-house and has others provided externally. For example, an organization might use a public cloud service, such as Amazon Simple Storage Ser... 

  • Joyent CEO pokes holes in Amazon's cloud

    Joyent CEO and co-founder David Young stops by to discuss battling Amazon in the public cloud and why he thinks Amazon's cloud architecture is flawed. 

  • Cloud storage startup CEO analyzes the future of cloud

    The founder and CEO of cloud storage startup Nasuni offers his two cents on the future of cloud storage and the companies that will end up ruling the cloud computing market. 

  • Ten minutes with 10 cloud startups

    At Cloud Connect, we interviewed 10 cloud startups in 10 minutes. Each company got one minute to explain what their product is and why enterprise IT shops should care. 

  • Top five reasons IT pros should care about cloud computing

    Why cloud computing? It's been an oft-asked question, but that's slowly changing. Find out five top reasons to care about the cloud, plus a few more for good measure. 

  • Calculating cloud computing TCO

    Bernard Golden, CEO of cloud computing consulting firm HyperStratus, explains how to calculate cloud computing's total cost of ownership. 

  • Cloud management pricing and licensing

    Learn about the pricing details and licensing structures associated with cloud management tools in part two of our podcast with Andi Mann, vice president of research with Enterprise Management Associates. 

  • Liquid Web opens 'cloud'-enabling data center

    A Web hoster will run Storm, it own cloud computing platform. at its new data center in Michigan. Storm will compete with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and other offerings. 

  • The value of cloud computing to the enterprise

    Learn about the value of cloud computing, along with the advantages of this evolving technology, in part two of our podcast with Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director at THINKstrategies Inc. 

About Cloud computing pricing and economics

As CIOs and managers review their IT budgets and strive to cut costs, a cloud computing architecture can be attractive given zero up-front capital costs for hardware and software and multi-tenant, pooled-resources for flexible scaling up or down. Cloud providers claim it also lowers IT staffing requirements. Get news and resources on the benefits and risks involved in cloud computing pricing and economics, including enacting cost-saving initiatives, a possible loss of control of your infrastructure and a lack of in-house IT expertise when you need it. This topic also covers the economics of cloud computing and EC2 pricing.